Mobile for Flash Developers free eSeminar today

Posted by on Apr 30, 2009 in devices, Flash, mobile | Comments Off

Atlantic Records have been working with AgencyNet on a fantastic multi-screen application called Fanbase. The team used Adobe AIR and the Flash Lite Distributable player to bring the application to consumers.

Working on Fanbase among others is David Brown, an extremely talented Flash developer. He’s been working with us for some time on the Distributable Player, and in fact his Bacardi application may well have been responsible for the new security model.

Today (Thursday, April 30, 2009 11:00 A.M. PST), David Brown from AgencyNet will host an eSeminar and uncover the key factors to consider when developing and deploying content to multiple devices with Adobe’s distributable player solution. Topics include Multilingual content, multiple input types, and consistent user experiences across screens.

More information and registration here.

Multi-screen excellence: Atlantic Records’ Fanbase

Posted by on Apr 3, 2009 in AIR, devices, Flash Player, mobile | 3 comments

Fanbase.jpgI’m sure you are well aware of the fact that the music industry has changed quite a lot over the recent years. The industry had to adapt to the rise of the Internet as music fans flocked together on social network sites and started posting video, photos and information on their blogs and MySpace/Facebook/YouTube accounts.

Atlantic Records now takes full advantage of all that content in their Fanbase application. This free application puts the latest information from artists/muscicians on to the fans’ desktops. The app features an audio player (powered by imeem), chat room (powered by Meebo) and a continuous feed of all the official and ‘unofficial’ news, photos and videos aggregated from all over the web. With one download, music fans now have access to all available information from one application. The application is built on top of AIR and thus runs on Mac, Windows and Linux.

Just this week, Atlantic Records launched a mobile version of the application. While some of you may already be reaching for your iPhones, Atlantic Records chose to built the app for the widest possible reach by picking Flash Lite as the platform. The mobile version has the exact same feature set as the desktop version. I recorded a quick demo of the mobile application this morning. I also included the install process so you can see that it’s not that hard to install the app on your Flash Lite enabled phone.

The Adobe TV team recently recorded a video with the people behind the Fanbase application.
Give Fanbase a go and get it on http://www.getfanbase.com/

Please note that Flash Lite 3.1 is currently available on these devices: Nokia N78, Nokia E65, Nokia N95 8GB, Nokia N95, Nokia N73, Nokia N81, Nokia 6120 Classic, Nokia E51, Nokia N81 8GB, Nokia E71, Nokia N96, Nokia N82, Motorola Q Norman(9h GSM), Motorola Q, Motorola Q9m, Samsung SGH-i607(BlackJack) I, Samsung SGH-i617(BlackJack) II, Samsung SGH-i780, HTC Touch, Diamond P3700, HTC-Pro S621(Same as T-Mobile dash), Palm Treo 700wx, Palm Treo Pro, Palm Treo 750. For more information on device compatibility, please visit Adobe Labs.